>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I'm not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it. The e

>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I'm not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it. The entire human body responds to moderate stress by improving itself. Studies have shown that fasting, exercise, and "cognitive taxation" aka learning through practice improves related areas and there is causative connections here. I think this, plus the correlation from the study is effectively strong evidence for isolation being causative to lower intelligence. We'd have to run an actual causative experiment here to establish this with any sort of finality though.